By default, the MAP Toolkit will install SQL Server 2012 Express LocalDB during setup.
Note: if you create an instance named “MAPS” before running the MAP Toolkit installer, you may also use an existing installation of SQL Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 R2, or SQL Server 2012 . The MAP Toolkit requires the collation order of the database engine to be set to “SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS”.

Recommendations

Do no install on a domain controller.

Close all open applications before running the setup wizard.

If your firewall doesn’t accept listing a service like WMI or Remote Administration, you will also need to open ports 135 and 1024-65535. The reason for this has to do with the way RPC works. WMI uses DCOM to communicate with remote machines, and DCOM uses RPC extensively

If the computer is in a workgroup, you must manually change the “Network access: Sharing and security model for local accounts” policy setting from Guest only to Classic on the local computer

To connect remotely and perform the WMI inventory, you will need to provide accounts that are members of the local Administrators group on the computer being inventoried

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